Has anyone here managed to get Asus PC Probe II to work with OCCT?
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Has anyone here managed to get Asus PC Probe II to work with OCCT?
Has anyone updated their bios w/ beta 1302? Any observations?
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...2-SLI%20Deluxe
It is not public yet. At least not on the download pages.
I tried the 1302 for fun - nothing interesting that I've noticed. I haven't noticed any change, actually.
Anyone using EX8350 from Promise on this motherboard? What performances do you get? I am getting ridicolously low performances (worse than ATA100) when connecting 4 Raptors to the controller whereas the integrated one achieves 300+MB/s during copy operations.
Sry haven't tried it
I have installed BIOS 1302 since it was published,
works flawlessly. :)
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Originally Posted by Wizkid
But is it any better?
and if so how?
There's a new bios 1303
ftp://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/s.../A8N321303.zip
it's final, 1302 was betaQuote:
Originally Posted by safan80
flashed without problems using ALT+F2 :)
Hi men. I have big problem with A8N32-SLI and CORSAIR 2x1GB 500MHz 3-4-4-8. Have anybody same mobo+ram? PLS write me. I have very unstable my memory:-(
BIOS 1303 is BAD! I found one BUG. He set 1T in BIOS...CPU-Z shows 2T. We set 2T in BIOS and CPZ-Z shows 2T. 1T dont works. Do you see same problem?
NOW is OK. Now is 1T in BIOS and cpu-Z shows 1T.
This bios still doesnt resolve my only issue. Whenever I plug in any bootable usb device it resets my boot order and I have to reset it in the bios (or use F8 boot screen). This is rather annoying as if I need to reboot my machine remotely and my girlfriend has plugged her iPod in the machine cant reboot successfully. Anyone else with this problem?
Do you have hard drive set as the first boot device? and disable your floppy usb won't boot if your floppy is disabled at least for me it won't.
Floppy is disabled and hard drive on SiL controller is set to boot. Its a strange one, I cant understand it :(
What other settings do you have?Quote:
Originally Posted by ubern00b
Like what's your cpu overclocked to?
FSB is 280, mem divider is 183 (opteron 148 @ 2.8ghz) stock volts, all other mem settings on default. Onboard printer port/serial/gamepad/non nvidia network card disabled. SiL controller is SATA2 mode, nvidia in RAID0 with 4 drives. Any other settings you can think of that you need to know list them and Ill let you know.
Have you tried setting everything back to default?
Does anyone know where the motherboard thermometer is located on this board?
I'm just wondering since when I installed my AC Accelero X2 on my X1800XT, the temperatures seem to have gone up pretty high which is at 47C :eek:
My CPU temperature is 38C idle with Q-Fan control enabled. I've read some replies where people have complain about temperature misreadings in this thread, is my problem the same? :(
are both temps idle temps? what are your load temps?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cybertronic
47C with air cooling is very good now if it was 100C that would be high.
Both are idle temperatures, For the 47C I meant the motherboard temperature!
I think my motherboard temperature has gone crazy as it increases when the CPU is on load (e.g. Super PI 32M) and it can go over 50C :confused:. I'm using my new AC Freezer 64 Pro on my Opteron 148 which has dropped the temperatures compared to the stock cooling by a nice margin.
I'm suspecting it's my AC Accelero X2 blowing air on the motherboard temperature but I don't know where it's located and it can't blow air that hot can it? :confused:
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Originally Posted by ubern00b
Hmm I have a 'worse' problem, when I have my ME-320U2 style
USB enclosure containing a BTC 1008 DVD+/-RW burner turned on
and plugged in to the USB port at boot, the boot crashes 100% of the
time.
I recall that WinXP gives me a blue screen of death crash when it's
just a little way into its initial boot process.
I'm not sure about Fedora LINUX, but I think it may be crashing too,
but I forget since I don't boot it that often, and it gives me another
kind of crash-on-boot problem that's related to IDE DMA or something
unrelated to the USB devices.
For me, though, I don't recall seeing it re-map the boot priority
sequence I've defined, though, depending on whatever bootable USB
device I have plugged in. It seems like it tries to boot the expected
default OS from the default HDD if that's selected, or it tries to
boot from the other internal HDD if I use F8 to select that or
if I made another internal HDD the default, and if I select or make
default the USB DVD drive, it'll try to boot off of that (which is how
I installed WinXP / Fedora LINUX, the bootable USB DVD drive).
I'm running BIOS 1205 now, and was running an old one that came with
the board (0502 or 0504 come to mind) before that.
Quick question here; What HAL is everyone using with this mobo and a single core cpu?
I just stepped into this board from an A8N-SLI Deluxe, and I'm having issues with the system not powering down completely when shutting down.
Mine just started doing dumb $$$$. Like, it won't even finish a windows load without resetting. No BSOD. Just, a reset.
Overclocked, Stock, below stock. Doesn't matter. Fresh install of windows, then BLAM.
I have a set order when i installed drivers and it will do it at different driver installs. I'm on reload attemp number 9, and quite ready to chuck this thing for another Conroe setup.
Power supply tests fine with my power supply tester, have tried two sets of RAM (the ram in it, and another set of 2x 1GB sticks) in just about every configuration possible. One in one bank, two in one bank, two in Dual Channel . One in Single Channel. I've even pulled the sound card. But, like i said - sometimes it will start its reset crap before i get the first driver loaded, other times, it will go after ALl drivers are loaded, then do it. It's just doing everything it can to make me MAD
I just got this board but I noticed it never came with that optional heatpipe fan. Do these boards not ship with it anymore ? Would Asus send me a free one if I should have gotten one?
I thought the same thing. It's hidden in the packaging, take another look.Quote:
Originally Posted by CannonFodder
Thanks. You were right.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClintE
I just put another build together; however when I run Memtest I can only select a test using my Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard as soon as Memtest starts. If I try after it has begun scanning the keyboard does not work. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this to happen?
Do you have legacy usb support turned on? Many users have reported problems with that option.
I disabled it and I still can't get it to work. I'm going to go home and try it again.
What exactly does legacy usb support do? I can't boot from my external dvd drive unless it's on.
I'm not sure but if I don't have it on my Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard won't work.
That's the 2 things that I know of that it's for: enabling support outside operating systems for usb keyboards, and ability to boot usb devices.
If you have access to a ps2 keyboard, disable the legacy usb option, disconnect the usb keyboard, and try the ps2 keyboard to see if that helps the memtest problem. Might want to start out with stock oc and voltage settings also, if not already.
The problem with booting a usb hard drive or optical drive, is that when accessing it after booting, it's only going to run at usb 1 speed. I don't think there's any way around that.
Hello guys! :)
I've got a problem with OC. Dunno why, i never had problem with OC before but now i don't know what to do.. So. I try to explain my problem...
My previous MoBo was A8N-Sli Premium. And my CPU Sandiego 4000+ i overclocked at 242x12=2904 on 1.525V. ANd RAM worked at 242MHz too.. and all was fine. but i try to overclocked it more 250x12 but it was not enough Voltage on CPU and SuperPi and Orthos doesn't passed the test.
so i changed A8N-sli premium to a8n32-sli deluxe, because in this MoBO i can put 1.65Voltage on CPU. :)
Yesterday i recieved mobo and start testing.. Maybe i am doing something wrong, but i can't ovecrlocked it to previous results. It means that 242x12 doesn't working.. SuperPi and Orthos doesn't passed the test. I tryed to change memory divider to slower but it didn't help me.
I don't know where is the problem... :confused: anybody have any idea ?
the topic is dead?:confused: two days left and nobody answer... i still need a help
I think it has something to do with sub memory timings, especially MAL (Max Async Latency) and RP (Read Preamble). If you keep them too tight while upping the HTT (and RAM freq of course) it will get unstable whatever setting or timing you try; you need to losen them. For starters I suggest using MAL 9 ns and RP 7.0 ns.
But before trying that, see if those settings (242x12=2904 on 1.525V) ARE stable with say 0,05 more vcore. I read somewhere on these forums that the A8N-SLI Premium tends to overvolt every vcore-value by 0,06-something (for example: 1.4v + 0,06v = 1,46v). And the A8N32-SLI probably isn't, which means that previously you were using more vcore than you're using now, which makes it unstable.
So try that first, otherwize go play with those subtimings.
Report back whether it works or not :)
Oh m8.. i am tryed everything. i put MAX voltage 1.65 and it is still doesn't helped. I tryed to use only one memory part. i put it in B1 slot. i tryed to play with timings,subtimings and dividers on memory, but it still doesn't helps me. I tryed to switch all Memory setting to AUto and put the memory divider to the lowest with cpu at 2904Mhz and lower but still doesn't help.. (i mean not only 242x12 doesn't work. Lower frequency doesn't work too.. for example 210x12 still failed on Orthos) Maybe my Mobo works only in non-overclocked mode? :D dunno wtf with my mobo..Quote:
Originally Posted by biohead
I fixed my problem of the Natural 4000 not working in Memtest. I thought I had flashed the BIOS to the newest available BIOS, 1303 but it wasn't. So after flashing it to 1303 I was able to use my keyboard within Memtest.
The max v core you can set in this board is 1.425v, If you want more, use the CPU overvolt option, it gives you 0.2 v to anything you select in the cpu vcore field (so, i.e, if you wanna hit 1.50v, select your vcore at 1.3 and enable overvolt, 1.3+0.2= 1.5v, voila!)Quote:
Originally Posted by tarantul
m8, i am not NAAB. i knew it. i have now 225x12=2700. it's all is ok. i am waiting for new RAM atm. maybe RAM problem. compatible problems maybe..Quote:
Originally Posted by jamex
I have an Asus A8N32-sli Mobo, Opteron 144 CPU and OCZ EL Platinum 2GB RAM (not the Rev 2 stuff). I was wondering if anyone could post all there bios settings if they have the same system as me *minus the cpu*. Im mostly interested in Ram settings because that too me was the most complicated part back almost a year ago when i was overclocking(<--Not good at this) this system. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
wow, you guys seem to be really trained in getting the most out of this board... I have it too but I'm a bit of a newbie on overclocking. Any chance anyone could take my hand and lead me to getting the max out of my board ? I have a Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester cpu and 2*1GB Corsair XMS 4000PT DDR 500, Sweex 650W PSU, Asus EAX1900XT video and a coolermaster cpu fan. I monitored cpu with asus probe II and I get a steady 35 degrees C on the board and around 45 on the cpu under stress. The case is open on the top and sides because I'm not concerned with estetics and if I close the case it overheats in a few hours, even at stock speed. I've been using Asus ai nos overclocking wich overclocks the board and cpu by a total of 10% and that runs quite steady at 2.4Ghz. Bus speed 220 multiplier 11.
btw, I can't put the bus to 250 with this cpu right ? Just checking
You should be able to set it to 250. I have the same cpu and I set it to 270x10 for 2700 although that required alot more voltage. I was able to hit 2500 easily so I bet you could do 250x10 with no problem. Maybe even 250x11 although you may have to work for that. Mine can't go over 2700 no matter what I do. Just set the K8>NB Multiplier setting to 4x in the bios so it's 250x4.
anything else or other settinsg that need to be done besides that enabling that one particular setting ?
is hard with this mobo pass 250, memory class make the diference, and secundary timings too tigh donīt like
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have any of you guys gotten the esata port to work? i picked up a cable with an esata plug on one end, and a regular sata on the other so i could plug a drive into the external port. i have the sil controller enabled in bios, with it set to sata2, i have tried setting it to raid, still a no go. drive wont even show in bios. anyone have success in doing this?
The esata port seems to work fine for me. I always have a Plextor sata optical drive plugged into the internal siI port also. Don't think that should make any difference whether the esata port works, though.
Do you see the siI bios message when the system posts? If so, you should be able to enter that bios screen and see the drive there.
i hit f4 to enter the sill bios, no drive there. i have a drive plugged into the internal sil port, works fine. im wondering if i got a bad cable, or maybe its not possible to hook a drive up this way? how are you using your esata port? thanks for the help
my sig :D :D :D
I have an Adaptec ACS-300 external usb/esata single 3.5" drive enclosure that I have connected to the A8N32-SLI esata port. I don't keep it connected all the time, as I use this enclosure for a lot of different things. It always worked perfectly when connecting it to this board's esata (or usb) port. I have not attempted to boot it from that port, but I will experiment with it soon.
While searching Adaptec's site for the model number of this enclosure, I found that they have it listed under their "discontinued" products. I doubt that it was on their active product list for even 2 years. Not much to support on their part; it either works or it doesn't. I found that this particular product worked better than some other companies' similar offerings. Figured Adaptec would be manufacturing it for a while longer.
Update:
With the enclosure connected to the esata port, the SiI bios sees the seagate drive, and I can choose the drive in A8N32 bios to boot. Didn't boot to Windows on that drive, but it boots to DOS and runs Symantec Ghost from there perfectly. I'm sure it would boot to Windows if I had that installed on the external drive.
The Adaptec external enclosure is transparent when running; the system sees the drive as if it were connected directly to the controller port. I've never seen it perform differently when connected to any controller port. Have even connected it to normal controller ports via cable with normal "L" sata connector to esata, such as the cable Veedo described.
weird, i dont know whats going on then...ive tried 2 different drives, im going to try another tomorrow and see if it works. maybe the esata just wont work connected to a bare drive, has anyone else tried that? no need for an external enclosure that way, i thought it would be a popular thing to do, but i guess not many people have tried it?
This might be a completely stupid thing to say, but make sure the drive has proper power going to it. The esata cable only supplies data signals.
Sorry, not trying to insult you or anything.
I wouldn't think that not having the drive attached to the drive chassis would make any difference in the grounding, but I suppose that's worth looking into also.
I know those esata-to-sata cables aren't easy to find, but maybe try another cable. Perhaps you got a bad one.
I have read that normal internal sata cables are sensitive to a small bending radius, but I've done a pretty sharp right angle on them before with no damage. Some of them may be more fragile than others.
Your problem is most likely cooling. The A8N32 runs hotter than the A8NSLI. You might wanna check around your mobo and see if there are any hot spots. Especially the mosfets. You might wanna take off the crap tim that they give you and put some AS5 on it. Also check the north bridge cuz it gets really damn hot too. I used 2 have this mobo and the heat pipes would always feel hot. I used 2 have the same cooler as you too. The TTBT is probably better 4 this board since it can blow onto the heatpipes.Quote:
Originally Posted by tarantul
2 different drives, but were they the same brand? When I connect my Seagate 7200.8 to the Sil controller I cannot even get to the initial Asus BIOS screen, not even trying to boot from it, but all my WD and Plextor drives work flawlessly. Go figure....Quote:
Originally Posted by Veedo
holy shmoly that t.t. is a pretty big hsf set up.
i have the ac64 pro.
i have had my 3700 and x24400 to 2.7 max oc but that is with
the original bios.
i currently have the x24400 oc,ed to 2.6 but with the
stock bios.
hell i didnt know the mosfet heatsink didnt even have any t.i.m.
i never even looked on mine.
hi, just got this board to replace mine asrock dual sata2.
I have a problem though. After all the casual boot info like cpu, mem, hdds and all that i came to a message that says: checking nvram... And then the boot freezes, some times it manages to show: checking nvram... ok, and then it freezes. The second problem i have is that my 3200 e6 chip is shown as a 5200+ in bios, so the bios need to be updatet but i cant get throug the boot so to speak. Have i missed a setting in bios and what does check nvram mean. Cant be the memsticks or can it, they work great in other systems and the board boots up just fine wiht them. 2x512 mb pc 3200 samsung tccc.
It appears like the board dosent want to start any of the drives at all. when i press f8 and the boot menu comes up it just dosent do a thing and i hafta hit ctrl-alt-del. when i boot without any drives it still says cheking nvram... ok.. and nothing.
help would be nice.
hi ya all,
What Bios ver. is every using for stabilty and for over clocking. seem to remember ( and posted earier in this thread ) that some of the Asus Bios release were pretty shabby.
I'm still on the factory release. 1101 ( i think .)
I have found that with my 3000+ winchester the board boots up ant into windows without a hich. I updated to the newest bios ver that i could find on asus homepage 1303 i supposed it was called. but still when i switch to my new 3200+ the board still says that its a 5200+ and i cant pass the cheking nvram... thingy. it the board or my cpu then? maybe there is a newer bios somewhere. gonna check.
try to update to 1303. it's a final version atm. and i think final at allQuote:
Originally Posted by blade148
it's a good one.
thanks I'll try that.
hot damn....after a year this thread is still alive! aren't y'all suppose to be all over the intel conroe? :lol2:
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Originally Posted by ben805
939 needs to hold me over another year! :toast:
Some of us are still wringing as much out of these as we can :stick:
i know what you mean, i'm waiting for the quad core and will stick with the good ol' opteron for a little longer :D
m8. s939 is still alive :D and this topic is alive too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ben805
i am waiting for intel penryn..
honestly, i just got this rig to work half way decent, and now 939 is dated lol. i just dont feel like another upgrade with new bugs and quirks. all is good on this board, except i still havent gotton the esata to work,
well said, i agree with you 100 percent, its just insane how fast new platforms get pushed out. why amd even bothered with the am2 thing is beyond me, i never understood why people were switching from 939 to am2.
I agree for the most part (with Mike that is). I only bothered to switch to Conroe since I was upgrading from a socket 754 chipset (from which I saw a big performance jump). The conroe is nice for those who are doing a lot of media encoding or for playing HD video (HD video is very demanding with the better codecs), as well as when I was doing some serious data crunching/folding. You are however right, the move to AM2 hasn't held up in value to this point. It really was more of a move to a new platform/socket for use on future processors. Barcelona (? =K8L) will be the first real improvement for the AM2 socket. The memory controllers on K8 simply don't function as well as those in the Intel chipsets, hence the increased performance of DDR2 for Intel over AMD. The Memory controller for Barcelona will likely make a vast difference in DDR2 performance.
Looking back, I should have probably upgraded to 939 over conroe, as it would have been somewhat cheaper, but then my conroe comp died anyway, so I dunno what will be available when I have the money to re-buy next month. Barcelona will likely be the start of a better AM2 platform, so it may be a good time to buy back into AMD. Course then I have to pick my way through the veritable minefield of AM2 Motherboards...
I just flashed to the newest bios on the asus webpage and now i got some serious troubles.
I started by wanting to get into my bios and tinker around tonight, i was still using the old school 0805 bios so i got th 1303 from the asus webpage and flashed it. I couldnt get into th ebios with my usb keyboard and was hoping th new bios would be "smarter" than th old one
Well i restarted like it asked me to but it just sat there and did nothing, i tried to restart it like 10 times and no dice, then i finally got it to start (no idea why it started though this time) and it took a few minutes to get into windows. No the usual 10-15 seconds, it took like 3 minutes.
Now when i got in to windows i can look around but my net doesnt work at all, its doesnt even recognize that there is a second harddrive which i had no troubles with at all before.
Anyone seen an issue like this? I restarted it again and it said ntldr was missing... wasnt last time... wtf is going on?
I reflashed the bios, no difference at all. I cant get into th bios at all, does anyone know how to get in with a usb keybaord?
I rebooted again and its been at the windows loading screen for 10 mins befor echanging... i dont think this is normal lol
I rebooted again last night after i got into t bios (finally) and was able to change my clock speed and such back to 2.5 ghz, i thought this might be haveen th problem. It was not. On my raptor it takes almost 10 minutes to load now... is this a windows problem or a bios set up problem?
It also seems to stay at the asus logo screen when i first boot up too for a long time not just a second or two. ANy ideas? I really need som help here, im sure its something simple i just cant figure out what.
Super Stokey......did you reset the cmos after flashing ??
Suer did, nothing i did would fix it. I had to go to the toe 1205 bios to get anything to work and it slowly started to. I almost said to hell with it and upgraded to a intel system yesturday.... I took me over 5 hours to get this thing all straightend out
Took a few screenies of my BIOS settings.
Anything that sticks out that could give me that little bit extra juice? :D
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I'm just wondering if this still is among the best motherboards out there for socket 939? My DFI Expert is starting to fail, so I'm wondering if this motherboard will do me any good with my x2 3800+?
My board is running great. In fact, I liked it so much I bought a second one open-box from Newegg for a SETI cruncher. I don't play around with the main rig much (sig), but #2 was running 340 MHz the other day as I was checking to see if a 165 would be OK for it (new CCBBE 0610 got here yesterday!! :D). The only issue I've had is the warm reboot problem (you have to shut down when OC'ed over a certain amount) but I still recommend this board for a 939 system.
On the warm reboot issue (at least on my boards):
- It has nothing to do with the Over-volt option nor the vCore. I set over-volt on the first boot and lower vCore as needed. I never have an issue near stock CPU speeds.
- It's not the FSB OC'ed, 333x6 reboots just fine.
- Over-clocked RAM w/an under-clocked CPU does not create the problem.
Low OCs don't create a problem but higher ones do. I have not taken the time to find out exactly where the line is drawn because it's below 2600 on my 180 (more than 200 MHz less than the top end) so who cares?
WAG - I'd bet the OC line is different for every rig.
Try disabling the Legacy USB support - it has caused many problems but I don't know if your KB will run w/out it ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Super strokey
Hmm, I don't like the warm boot problem... Still no solution with that even with newest bios? And I have to ask, how is it to mount this mobo inverted? My case has the mobo inverted...
Well i countered my warm boot problem by changing teh nb>sb fsb to 200 from teh 250 i originally had it at. No idea if that will work for you. As for inverting the mobo i wouldnt suggets it as the heatpipe would be upside down and you would infact just be taking more heat to the sb and nb rather than away from them.
So inverted wouldn't work? :( . One more question: I'm running my x2 3800+ without IHS on along with a swiftech storm. That is working like a charm with my dfi expert. How does it work with the a8n32-sli deluxe? Would the actual socket be raised too much?
I dont know about that sorry. Might work but i really dont know
ASUS heatpipes use gravity (instead of a wick) so the stock set-up doesn't work well inverted. However, some people have an air cooler on the SB and have no problems - just a matter of where the heat goes. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by granulf
The Storm works fine on the A8N32 with an IHS - my main rig uses one. AFAIK the 939 socket frames are all the same so if it works on a DFI it'll work on the A8N32 but the pressure may not be correct on either of them if you don't trim the frame.Quote:
Originally Posted by granulf
I've got a de-lidded FX-55 with a Storm on another rig and instead of messing with the frame I just took it off. With the Storm the frame really doesn't do anything for you anyway. As always w/out the IHS you need to be careful how much you tighten the Storm down ...
If you look carefully, the socket will have a sort of step upwards on one edge, which may cause problems on some mobos. I'm not talking about the removable frame, as I've never used that. You haven't by any chance tried your storm and de-lidded FX55 with the A8N32-sli deluxe?
The FX-55 is on another ASUS board and it doesn't have any problems. I can't imagine ASUS having two suppliers for sockets so it's probably the same socket. And I've been on OCForums since May, nobody over there has reported any problems with the Storm on a de-lidded chip with this board.Quote:
Originally Posted by granulf
I'll know for sure when Sidewinder gets my fans in stock - then my new CCBBE 0610 165 will go under a Storm on my second A8N32-SLI ...
Ok, thanks. I just ordered a8n32-sli deluxe. I got it really cheap, a DFI sli-dr would cost me twice as much! I don't really expect it to be better than my dfi expert, but I don't bench too much so for 24/7 setup I believe it will be just as good.
Here's a quick look around the BIOS: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=468038
Thanks. I remember the first time I tried this board I used probably 15 minutes or more until I could locate everything I wanted to. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by QuietIce
I got my mobo today, and it worked fine with my IHSless x2 3800+ :) . However, I'm struggling a bit with memory speed. Firstly I started with 166mhz divider, but that gave me cpu/10 for some reason. I went down to 133mhz, which appeared to be perfect to begin with. When I was at 270x10(2.7ghz), the divider was cpu/14. That would be perfect for 280x10(2800/14=200). So I upped it to 280x10, but then the divider changed to cpu/15. Why is that? :confused: Annoying, any advices?
Are you running the 1303 BIOS ...?
I was using bios 1103, but I updated to 1303 now... Let's see where it brings me :DQuote:
Originally Posted by QuietIce
Right, I think the problem is that there is no divider between 133mhz and 166mhz... Stupid, with my dfi expert I used 140mhz divider which was perfect :) . Any way I can get cpu/14(140mhz divider) or cpu/13(150mhz divider)?
Apart from that I'm experiencing some Vdroop, but it doesn't seem to affect stability much yet. I'm priming at 285x10(but it drops to 284.5x10 during load) and 1.6V(which drops to 1.55V during load). My DFI Expert was never stable at that speed, maybe this will be stable?
I haven't experienced any cap at 1.58V yet, I was at 1.62V earlier. No warm boot problems with the new bios either :)
Guys, I need some help now! :p:
I think I got it stable at 315x9(2835mhz) now, but I'm getting warm boot issues. Is there any way to avoid the warm boot problem? Any advices? If I can't get this sorted out I will for sure return it :( . It turned out that when I hit 300 HTT and above, the 133mhz divider switches to cpu/14, so it's perfect at 2835 :)
A 133 divider should be 14 all the time. It's very strange that yours isn't. But you're right about the jump, 166 gives you CPU/11.
Have you Enabled NB Over-volt?
Just out of curiosity did you happen to notice when the warm boot problem started ...?
I know, it's strange. But I'm happy with it, since it's better to use 9x divider and over 300 HTT :DQuote:
Originally Posted by QuietIce
No, it's still disabled.
I'm trying to find out when it happens now. Last night I changed to 300x9 and 1.35V + cpu overvolt. This morning I just changed to 305x9 without any other changes. No problems yet it seems, so I will increase to 310x9 soon enough. Hopefully I can get it to 315x9 :) . But I'm actually a bit surprised, the dfi expert would always crap out at some time when using 315x9, still hasn't happened with this mobo...
EDIT: I now increased to 310x9 and then on to 315x9. It doesn't seem to have any warm boot problems, but I won't draw conclusions quite yet...
Turned out I still get warm boot problems... :(
I finally got it more or less 100% stable at 320x9(2880 mhz), but I get warm boot problems. Any last advices or do I simply have to live with it? I don't have any problems with 310x9, but then again 90mhz extra for the cpu is quite a lot :p:
Nice OC!
I'm sill playing with settings on the warm boot issue - no info as yet. Odd thing is I had the same problem with the A8N-VM (cheap board) but solved it using 8 up/down on the SB width instead of 16 up/down. I tried several settings for the SB on the A8N32 but nothing worked. Somebody else reported solving their issue by rearranging their DVD burner connection (or maybe they replaced it?), which also comes off the SB. You gotta' wonder ...
Thanks. My dfi expert would never be stable at 2880 for some reason...Quote:
Originally Posted by QuietIce
Lots of weird solutions there, I haven't tried all settings yet, so I don't really know... Make sure and tell me if you figure something out then! :)
Hey, I'll be getting this board together with an Opteron 146 without coldbug that does 3,2 with air cooling to play with. I'll test it with my phasechange cooler before I eventually sell it.
I have a couple of questions though:
How far does the HTT usually go? Is 380 in range?
Does the board have any known issues with TCCD mem? I have five sticks laying around here that I'd like to test :D
IDK how far the HTT will go with this board. I personally have had one of mine up to 350 w/NB over-volt (+0.1v) but I didn't test above that. I was checking it w/my 4400 (multi turned down) b/c of a possible 165 purchase and wanted to make sure I could get to 3+ GHz w/the new chip (it's still waiting on me to get the WC hooked up). Can't remember having heard of anyone else trying it farther.
There are no TCCD problems that I am aware of ...
Just a quick update on the warm-boot issue. I had a chance to play today and found a 0.05v increase in vCore solved my problem. System is completely stable running 246x11 @ 1.45v, played games, compressed video, 2xPrime95 for 30+ hours and has been running SETI 24/7 since last July. BUT, a simple increase in vCore to 1.50v has eliminated the warm boot problem for me. I would have tried sooner but before reading this thread I just assumed it came with the territory.
Thanks guys ...! :)
quoted cuz I'm wondering the same thingQuote:
Originally Posted by granulf
I'm using an Opteron 175 that I've gotten to 3.0GHz stable (273x11) on an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum...
need to FINALLY make the jump to PCI-E and wondering which board to go with...